Sue Hastings Marionettes: the largest and most active marionette organization in the country

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SUE HASTINGS MARIONETTES
The Largest and Most Active Marionette Organization in the Country
In New York City SUE HASTINGS MARIONETTES have scored successes for four seasons in a series of performances under the auspices of the New York Theatre Guild.  The Institute of Arts and Sciences of Columbia University has engaged them for the sixth time for an annual series in the College Theatre; the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences is presenting them in a second annual series.

What could be more thrilling for a child than to see the pages of his story books come to life—to see Mumbo flapping flap-jacks, to see Sambo lose his clothes and the proud tiger strutting along carrying the umbrella with his tail!


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PRESENTATIONS
For the Children (Plays carefully selected to suit the various ages)

LITTLE BLACK SAMBO
A rollicking version of Sambo's adventures with jungle animals.
PETER RABBIT
His adventures in Mr. MacGregor's garden.  (Played for two weeks at the Martin Beck Theatre under the auspices of the New York Theatre Guild.)
AT THE WISHING WELL
Another adventure of Peter Rabbit.  All of Peter's friends will be glad to see him in this new role.
HANSEL AND GRETEL
Following the story of the opera, with musical accompaniment.
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
Most popular with boys of all ages.
THE MOUSE AND THE GINGERBREAD
A favorite for very young children.
WINNIE-THE-POOH
Adapted from those delightful books by A. A. Milne.
(By special arrangement Stephen Slesinger, N. Y.)
GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS
For very little children.
THE ELEPHANT'S CHILD
Adapted from the well-known Kipling story.
THE KNIGHT AND THE DRAGON
A thrilling tale of the days when knighthood was in flower.
CINDERELLA
The favorite of all fairy tales.


What fun to see the beanstalk grow to the sky before one's very eyes!  And what excitement there is when the doughty knight battles with the fiery dragon whose eyes are ablaze and whose nostrils belch forth flames and smoke!  A gripping performance!


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Each program includes a play followed by a group of specialty acts taken from a selected list, such as:

Buster and his Dog
The Sleepy Town Express
Hocus and Pocus, the Clowns
The Mouse Ballet
Aunt Jemima and the Pickaninnies
Soldiers on Parade
The Music Box
Raggedy Ann and Andy
Daisy, or a Bicycle Built for Two
Jack-in-the-Boxes
Dainty Damozelle
In Penguin Land
Katinka
Pumpkin Patch Pranks
The Dairymaid's Dilemma
The Clown and Lolapaloosa His Trained Horse
The Wooden Soldier and the Painted Doll
The Three Bears on Parade
Under the Big Top—a Circus Act
Dance of the Golliwogs
Naoki of the South Seas
On a Cannibal Isle
The Dance of the Paper Dolls
The Sleepy Town Express
Hocus and Pocus, the Clowns
The Mouse Ballet
Aunt Jemima and the Pickaninnies
The Music Box
Raggedy Ann and Andy
Daisy, or a Bicycle Built for Two
Jack-in-the-Boxes
Dainty Damozelle
Katinka
Pumpkin Patch Pranks
The Dairymaid's Dilemma
The Clown and Lolapaloosa His Trained Horse
The Wooden Soldier and the Painted Doll
Under the Big Top—a Circus Act
Dance of the Golliwogs
Naoki of the South Seas
On a Cannibal Isle
The Dance of the Paper Dolls





The performance of Sue Hastings Marionettes at the Martin Beck Theatre smacks as thoroughly of its Theatre Guild sponsorship as any production of O'Neil or Shaw.—
New York Times


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The Children's Theatre has 'gone Sue Hastings.'  According to present plans your marionettes will be the only ones on our program.

Russel Potter

In Charge of the Institute of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University.



For the Adults
THE PUPPET FOLLIES
A gay and intimate revue, in miniature, sparkling with the sort of humor that brings chuckles of amusement and peals of laughter and insures a delightful evening to any adult audience.  There are songs, dances and plays taken from the following:


THE PLAYS

BEHIND THE SCENES
A hilarious farce showing the trials and tribulations of the puppeteer.  The front curtain comes down and you see not only the wooden headed actors on the stage, but those above who pull the strings!
THE GOOSEBERRY MANDARIN
A Chinese fantasy.
BREAKFAST FOR TWO
A smart satire.
THE DRAGON WHO WEPT
An amusing and picturesque tale of ancient days.



THE REVUE ACTS

The Gypsies
The Opera Singer
Italian Street Song
Katinka
Barnacle Bill the Sailor
Fifi, the Hawaiian Dancer
Once in a Blue Moon
The Dairymaid's Dilemma
The Golliwog's Cakewalk
Hallelujah
The Buggy Ride
In the Jungle
Daisy, or A Bicycle Built for Two
The Merry Minstrels
The Wooden Soldier and the Painted Doll
Swinging in a Hammock
Headliners
(Portrait marionettes of stage and radio celebrities.)
(New numbers are constantly being added.)




THE MAGIC RING—A charming tale of Old England.
ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP—A sophisticated and riotous version done with true Oriental splendor.
DORA, THE BEAUTIFUL DAIRYMAID—A melodrama of the Gay Nineties.
ABDULLAH AND HIS DONKEY—A comedy of the Orient.


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SUE HASTINGS MARIONETTES have played for scores of prominent clubs, schools, theatres and private parties: Mrs. Anna Dall, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt, Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, Mrs. Alma Gluck Zimbalist, Count di Zoppola, Miss Anne Morgan are a few of those who have chosen these puppets to entertain their guests.  Smith College, Lafayette College, Columbia University, Mt. Holyoke College, University of North Carolina and numerous other colleges have enjoyed these programs, while private schools such as the Spence School, the Mary Wheeler School, the Hill School and innumerable public schools throughout the East make of their coming an annual event.


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ADDRESS
Sue Hastings Marionettes
1841 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY